First Step Of the Road to Scientific Illustrations
Complete the questions below in your do now portfolio.
About Scientific Illustrations
History of Scientific Illustrations
Illustrated books allowed the lay public to share in the excitement of discoveries, from Antarctica to the Amazon, from the largest life forms to the microscopic.
"In the days before photography and printing, original art was the only way to capture the likeness of organisms, people, and places, and therefore the only way to share this information with others," notes Tom Baione, "Printed reproductions of art about natural history enabled many who'd never seen an octopus, for example, to try to begin to understand what an octopus looked like and how its unusual features might function." Today, scientists use many imaging technologies to conduct research: infrared photography, scanning electron microscopes, computed tomography (CT) scanners, and more, but there still Is a role for illustration--how else to depict animals that cannot be seen live, such as a fleshed-out dinosaur? Illustration also is used to represent complex structures clearly, color graduations, and other essential details. |
Prominent amongst the history of Scientific Illustratiosn/ natuiralist paintings is Dürer’s Drawing and how, so-to-speak, he brought the rhinoceros to the continent of Europe:
Rhinos were by no means common to Europe; not many people, aside from those who had traveled and seen a rhino in its native lands had ever known what one looked like. And so on May 20, 1515, the first living rhinoceros to be brought to Europe in 1,200 years was scheduled to arrive in Portugal as a present by the Portuguese King, Manuel I, on behalf of Sultan Muzafar II of the kingdom of Gujarat in western India to Pope Leo X. Unfortunately, the animal, along with the ships crew, perished in a shipwreck. Dürer therefore never saw the animal, but instead used a sketch made by another artist and a letter from Lisbon, which provided a detailed description of the scientific make-up of the rhino, as models for the woodcut image he would eventually produce. Dürer’s image was naturalistic enough to identify that particular rhino as one of Indian descent (single-horned and possessing folded skin unlike African double-horned, smooth-skinned rhinos), though it did receive some speculation due to the small spiral horn located on the shoulders, which has been referred to as the “Dürer-hornlet.” The image was heavily copied and found its way into a multitude of learning tools including zoological, artistic and scientific texts well into the 18th century. After Reading the passage above Answer the questions below |
MArine Biology Scientific Illustration
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They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” As cliche as it is, that phrase could not resonate more clearly for this visual learner than when I am flipping through a 10 lb. biology textbook full of thousands of words. I can read through pages and pages describing some ecological process or critter life cycle and be completely bogged down until, I hit the magical beacon of hope that brings it all together. An illustration. 
Check out this current Scientific Illustration Digital Artist Laurie O'keefe
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by Laurie O'keefe
by Laurie O'keefe
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Project discription
Traditional Scientific IllustrationsExamples of Digital painted AquATIC aNIMALS |
Like Durer students will create a scientific illustration examining the detail of their chosen subjec from Marine Biology but using the modern amendities of our time. Photoshop.
The painting must
Step one: create a original composition by COLL AGING together your image
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Project Example
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Research ParagraphThe fascinating Deep sea Bioluminescent Octopus or Stauroteuthis syrtensis is a species that has rarely been seen or studied. It resides in the deepest part of our oceans, the North Atlantic Ocean which in part is the reason for its elusiveness. This reddish-brown octopus resembles a large umbrella, where its 8 legs are connected or webbed. On the octopus's underside, its suckers light up. A total of about 60 adhesive suckers exists on each arm. All light up with bioluminescence. Scientists believe this characteristic to be a defensive mechanism, and being used by the animal to scare off predators. Some Whales and squid are attracted to the glowing underside of the cookie-cutter shark, which grabs a bite out of the animals once they are close. The scientists also believe that the glowing characteristics purpose could be to lure for the planktonic crustaceans that form its main diet. This octopus does not continuously glow but will light up or twinkle for about 5 minutes at a time.
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project Requirements
First students will complete a little research on their chosen aquatic subject matter.In their Do Now Portfolio students must answer the following questions about your aquatic subject matter in a paragraph using complete sentences and a min of 75 words. This will be worth 50 project points!
like Durer and Digital Artist Laurie O'Keeffe students will create a scientific illustration examining the details of their chosen Marine Biology subject but using the modern amenities of our time. Photoshop. The painting must
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